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What would a smart - ER - meter say ?

We can think of smart-meters as idiotic Twitter users who send out status updates whenever they get on a bus, arrive at school etc, i.e. all the time and to anyone who will listenTweet : Sat, 14th March 2014 12:30 @gas_meter consumed 20.4 kWhTweet : Sat, 14th March 2014 13:00 @gas_meter consumed 18.4 kWhTweet : Sat, 14th March 2014 13:30 @gas_meter consumed 44.6 kWhTweet : Sat, 14th March 2014 14:00 @gas_meter consumed 20.9 kWh

and so on for ever and ever- ad nauseam,

- Honestly it's not that smart and it looks more like data than informationSo data that updates in real time - "How cool is that" ?Have you ever tried watching a clock ? (<--------------Hint: sarcasm) - to be fair it might be marginally more interesting than watching paint dry (for a few minutes), but it is is hardly more informative.

Lets remember that hoping a smart meter will save you energy by observing its very existence is like thinking you will lose weight if you stand on a pair of bathroom scales for long enough !

"but won't make you lose weight !"

So maybe smart meters should even call us to gain our attention at certain times,

So,while the answer remains in our power to define - and while we can simply strikeout all but the most foolish of objections:

Very Silly - Objections !

Perhaps what we should first be asking is:

"If we let a smart meter talk - how much should it say ? - when to speak, and when to be silent, what to say, why, how often and to whom ?"

The answers should obviously depend on who is listening, (and that they have a right to) on how much time they have and most importantly why they might care and whether they can do anything useful in response anyway !

"Otherwise it will be ignored."

Simply put, if a smart-meter is set up to be ignored it may as well sit in the "Dunce's Corner" right next to the Climate Change Denial Theorist...